The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers

About Titania

(1/4) > >>

seanham:
We know that Titania's main purpose is to protect the world from Mab, but what does she do on a day-to-day (or century to center) basis. We know that Mab spends her time plotting, gaining allegiances, and gaining power all to help at the Outer Gates, but what does Titania do? Because the Summer Court is so much smaller than the Winter Court, does she need to work that much harder to protect her people and all the mortals? Or, to keep the balance for every ally or ability that Mab gets, does Titania need to get an ally or ability of her own?

Griffyn612:
I would imagine there's a lot of fine print in the contracts between the Sidhe and others. To the point that Titania might not have to account for everything Mab does; she might only have to account for Mab, the other Queens, and the subjects of Winter.

For example, the Erlking shows up in service to Winter in Proven Guilty. He might have an Agreement with Mab to act in defense of Winter against non-Sidhe invaders. A similar agreement might be in place for him to help Summer. But he wouldn't necessarily get involved if Summer tried to invade Winter, or vice versa. Maybe he didn't get involved in Summer Knight because that was internal politics, and he's explicitly excluded from that.

The same could be true for all contracts with other factions. Mab can have a deal with Anduriel, which has nothing to do with Sidhe politics, but there could be a clause that is enforced by Word that Mab will not ask him to involve himself in politics, and he won't involve himself in politics.

That way Mab can have a larger power structure to call on to fight the war against the Outside, but Titania doesn't have to match all of it.

Yuillegan:
I think it's fairly clear that Mab and the Winter Court have no issues exploiting, torturing, terrifying, and killing mortals as part of who they are. If mortals get near them it's just what they do. They do it because they like it, because they think it's the way of things, because that's just part of who they are.

I'd imagine Titania and the Summer Court spend a lot of time countering the elements of Winter that go off and attack mortals. Like Faerie police of a sort. Mab's troops need to be harsh and wild and savage. So they're going to eat/maim/kill/scare anything that crosses them. Titania and the Summer Court are there to stop that happening as much as they can. It's probably a big job.

I don't know that it's a relationship of equals though. If Mab gains more power, Titania should too (at least in terms of personal power enough to take on those of Winter NOT at the Outer Gates). But she isn't handed it. She is expected to go and get it. She is a reactionary to Mab's actions. But it's Mab who has to be proactive about gaining more power, more allies, more favors etc. Remember, Aurora could have upset the balance of power between the Courts by sacrificing the power of the Summer Knight to Winter. Titania wouldn't have had an automatic boost in order to realign things back to equality. It is feasible for Mab, and the Winter Court, to become stronger than Titania and her Court. That's what made the threat in Summer Knight so real. It isn't all that likely though as Mab clearly only gets more power if she needs it, and Titania probably spends a lot of time making sure that sort of thing only happens the right way so she isn't caught out.

Mira:

  I think that Titania is plenty strong on her own, also capable of seeking revenge and getting it, as Harry found out after Aurora died.  Isn't there a WOJ out there or something in one of the books that Summer and Winter flip roles as far as guarding the Gates are concerned every millennia or so?  Both are forces of nature, and Summer can be every bit as cruel and indeed more violent than Winter.  While Mab is cold and calculating, Titania is emotional and volatile, not good to cross either one of them..

morriswalters:
Yeah, Mother Summer just dropped a Covid bomb and has other diseases  waiting in the wings.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page